Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The Iowa River sacked Columbus Junction's three-pronged makeshift levee system Saturday night, drowning the community's lower section. State officials offered to send 400 National Guard troops to attempt to reinforce the levee, but town leaders saw the breach as inevitable and declined. Those troops instead were used to guard Oskaloosa's water facility on the Skunk River. (Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 16, 2008.)

The trick to wildlife photography isn't in zany super-long glass, although that helps. It's being patient, making nice with the critters, and getting right up close with 'em. As a matter of fact, the only reason I wasn't closer to the subjects in the top two photos was the lens I was using can only focus to about five feet.

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I have done a little of everything, except for the things still on my list. (I don't have a list.) Press secretary for Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, reporter, photojournalist, webmaster, computer technician, road paver, banker, and sometime novelist... the list goes on and on.

Originally of Cheyenne, I moved to Colorado Springs when I was a young duffer but did most of my growing up in Nichols and Lone Tree, Iowa, two small towns in the east central part of the state. I spent most of my childhood scheming to return to Wyoming, and was finally successful early in 2008. It has been bittersweet: I love it here and the people are fantastic, but I left many fantastic people behind.